WELL DONE THY GOOD AND FAITHFUL COLLEAGUE! John & Lynda C. From: OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Reply-To: OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 9:05 PM To: "Elliestock@aol.com" <elliestock@aol.com>, OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Isobel and Jim <isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Earth Day Vesper Service; songs; blog Thank you Ellie and Carleton. With love and greetings from Autumn in Sydney. 🍂🍁🌹💐🌾 🌏🌍🌎 Isobel B Isobel Bishop Mob. 0412 129 425 On 23 Apr 2021, at 3:45 am, Ellie Stock via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: [/var/folders/_5/m5_rmvf55t9cndrpnrt0xlpw0000gn/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/Content.MSO/92022D83.tmp] Dear ICA/OE Friends! Happy Earth Day/Week! Thanks for the Earth Day messages, poetry and Laudato Si music that have been posted this morning. Today I find myself both lamenting Earth's crisis and humanity's continuing complicity in its destruction and also celebrating Earth's beauty and its continually unfolding wonder--caught between bad Judeo/Christian Biblical interpretation/theology that spurred humanity to "dominate" the land and all that is in it through violence and extraction and also a vision that calls humanity to beat swords into plowshares and be midwives of a New Heaven and New Earth. So related to Earth Day, I thought I would share . . . Carleton and I coordinate the Earth Care Team at Second Presbyterian Church, where we attend. To celebrate Earth Day, in addition to our morning service, we will be hosting an evening outdoor in person campfire s'more Earth Day Vesper Service. -Attached: a draft of the service, using Native American and Celtic motifs. -Below: -info about the vesper service with links to two songs that will be used; -a link to a blog by Carleton written for our presbytery's e-news for Earth Day; -Lyrics to song: A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH APRIL 25 EARTH DAY CAMPFIRE/S'MORES IN-PERSON VESPER SERVICE All are invited to Second Presbyterian Church's EARTH DAY VESPER SERVICE, Sunday, April 25, 6:00 PM in the church parking lot, hosted by the Earth Care Team. We will be gathering around a "campfire", worshiping together, and then enjoying a time of fellowship and making s'mores. Food and utensils will be provided. Bring a chair, wear a mask, and practice social distancing. Parking may be on the street or on the left side of the church parking lot, as you enter the lot. Come celebrate the gift of God's Creation and our call to care for Earth and all that is in it. All are invited to wear GREEN! Vesper songs: Let the Earth Breathe: [https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png] 2.15.21 Let the Earth Breathe.mp4<https://drive.google.com/file/d/15XF981ii5aQj-kGMY-5WXR92P541obf2/view?usp=drive_web> Now I Walk in Beauty: Now I Walk In Beauty Libana- Fire Within - YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0hZujNbYg8> Carleton's Earth Day blog. He coordinates the presbytery's Earth Care Team. Earth Day 2021 - Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy (glpby.org)<https://glpby.org/earth-day-2021/> A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Who knows why the star lights the planet Why creation stretches in vastness Why so small a creature as I am Meets and feels the wonder at hand. Who knows what the wind whispers softly What the land recalls from life’s dawning What life’s goodness bids us now to choose What new thing we’re given to do Who knows where the Earth greets the rainbow Where the river beckons to go Where the road will lead us to enter A new way that seeks no return Who knows how the eagle wing soars so How the mountain moves upon order How the serpent laughs with the white dove Bringing forth new beings filled with love Who knows when the waves kiss the shore line When sand castles shift to the sea When new footprints christen the strange birth Of a new heaven and new earth. ejhs Have a great Earth Day/week! Ellie [Blush] elliestock@aol.com <EARTH DAY VESPER SERVICE. 4-25-2021, Second Presbyterian Church.docx> _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net